Geothermally Heated Manhattan Townhouse



It’s an excellent venture amidst growing concerns over soaring heating bills — a geothermally heated townhouse. This is all what was happening in lower Manhattan for awhile now. The house has just gone on sale - at a whopping $7.8 million!



As the World Street Journal reports, the house is five-storied and it stands in TriBeCa, a few blocks north of the World Trade Center site. The factor that catapulted the townhouse in the headlines of newspapers is - it uses an unusual geothermal energy system to provide heating, cooling and hot water.



Pipes from the house runs deep down the earth’s 1,400 feet into the crust — where the temperature is always about 52 degrees. These pipes transfer energy to the house. The hose has two-layer-thick concrete exterior walls, filled with thermal materials, which trap the energy and distribute it. Even all the floors also have radiant heating systems.



Via: Inhabitat